Advocacy networks,choice and private schooling of the poor in India

This article is about the flows of rhetorics and discourses, particularly those that advocate choice and private schooling, and the role that transnational advocacy networks play in managing and driving these flows. We explore a set of network relations between advocacy groups in the UK and the USA and local ‘choice’ advocates in India, and some of the emerging impacts of local and transnational advocacy on the politics of education and education policy in India. The network advocates school choice and private schooling as solutions to the problem of achieving universal, high‐quality primary education. Individual policy entrepreneurs are active in making these connections and circulating ideas. A complex of funding, exchange, cross‐referencing, dissemination and mutual sponsorship links the Indian choice and privatization advocacy network, and connects it to other countries in a global network for neoliberalism.     

'Secret Justice': The Use Made of School Reports in the Juvenile Court

Summary The data collected for this review confirmed the suspected widevariation in practice relating to school reports, with a biastowards their not being shown to parents and defendants. Nogeographic or demographic explanation for the variety of practiceemerged, however the comments of justices' clerks suggest thatin many courts it is their influence together with that of headteachersand juvenile panel members which effectively determines practice.The data also reveals a disturbing incidence of disregard forthe rules as laid down in the Magistrates Courts (Children andYoung Persons) Rules 1970.     

INTERTEMPORAL SUBSTITUTION AND CONSTRAINTS ON LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL DATA

This paper tests an intertemporal labor supply model for workers who say they face quantity constraints on their hours and for workers who say they do not. The data reject the model for the first group but not for the second. I conclude from this evidence that employment fluctuations result mainly from changes in the severity of constraints—that is, changes in involuntary unemployment—rather than intertemporal substitution. It also appears that liquidity constraints influence labor supply. Finally, the paper proposes a new approach to identifying intertemporal labor supply equations.     

A MODEL FOR BATCH ADVANCED AVAILABLE‐TO‐PROMISE

The available‐to‐promise (atp) function is becoming increasingly important in supply chain management since it directly links production resources with customer orders. In this paper, a mixed integer programming (mip) ATP model is presented. This model can provide an order‐promising and ‐fulfillment solution for a batch of orders that arrive within a predefined batching interval. A variety of constraints, such as raw material availability, production capacity, material compatibility, and customer preferences, are considered. Simulation experiments using the model investigate the sensitivity of supply chain performance to changes in certain parameters, such as batching interval size and customer order flexibility.     

The Selection of Parents and Children for Legal Action in Connection with Unauthorized Absence from School

Summary Information was obtained about four groups of poor school attenders.Parents of one group of the children had been invited to a meetingof the LEAs School Attendance Section. Parents of a second grouphad been prosecuted for their child's poor attendance. The thirdgroup consisted of children brought before the Juvenile Courtbecause of their poor school attendance, and the fourth groupwas of poor attenders against whom no formal action had beentaken. Interviews with education welfare officers provided informationabout the presenting problem for each group and the reasonsfor the action that was taken. Interviews with social workersinvolved with the group of children before the Juvenile Courtyielded very similar information to that provided independentlyby education welfare officers. The project identified some apparentproblems in the present system.     

Ascription and Position: A Comparative Analysis of “Stacking” in Professional Football*

Le phénomène du rangement sélectif (“stacking”) qui correspond à une presence ou à une absence disproportionnée sur une équipe de joueurs possédant certains traits innés fait l'objet d'une analyse empirique comparée dans le domaine du football canadien et américain. De plus on examine la pratique du rangement sélectif dans la Ligue canadienne de Football par rapport à Porigine raciale. On compare deux modèles théoriques, l'un basé sur la centralité dans l'organisation et l'autre base sur l'orientation des tâches primaires-secondaires, afin de connaître leur utilité dans la compréhension de la pratique du rangement sélectif et de leurs implications particulières. The phenomenon of “stacking,” the disproportionate presence or absence of players defined by a particular ascribed characteristic, is empirically examined in the comparative context of professional football in Canada and the United States. Additionally, the ascribed characteristic of national origin is examined in terms of stacking patterns in the Canadian Football League. Two models, organizational centrality and primary-secondary task-orientation are compared theoretically as to their utility in explaining stacking practices, and the implications are considered.     

The Use and Significance of School Reports in Juvenile Court Criminal Proceedings: a Research Note

Summary This research note examines the significance of a serendipitousfinding, arising out of a small research study into the makingof care orders in criminal proceedings in one juvenile court,that school reports may have a greater influence on courts decisionsthan has hitherto been realized, and questions the protectiongiven to defendants under the Magistrates Courts (Children andYoung Persons) Rules1 when such reports are regarded as confidentialto the court.